Large clonal outbreak of multidrug-resistant CC17 ST17 Enterococcus faecium containing Tn5382 in a Spanish hospital

Objectives A large clonal outbreak of multidrug-resistant CC17 ST17 Enterococcus faecium containing Tn5382 in a hospital in the north of Spain is described. Methods We characterized vancomycin-resistant E. faecium isolates from 10 infected and 40 colonized inpatients from a single hospital by PFGE,...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy 2009-01, Vol.63 (1), p.17-20
Hauptverfasser:	Valdezate, Sylvia, Labayru, Cristina, Navarro, Ana, Mantecón, María A., Ortega, María, Coque, Teresa M., García, Moisés, Saéz-Nieto, Juan A.
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Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Antibiotics. Antiinfectious agents. Antiparasitic agents Bacteria Bacterial Typing Techniques Biological and medical sciences Carrier State - microbiology Case studies Cluster Analysis Cross Infection - epidemiology Cross Infection - microbiology DNA Fingerprinting DNA Transposable Elements DNA, Bacterial - chemistry DNA, Bacterial - genetics Drug resistance Drug Resistance, Multiple, Bacterial Enterococcus faecium Enterococcus faecium - classification Enterococcus faecium - drug effects Enterococcus faecium - isolation & purification Genes, Bacterial Genotype genotypes Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections - epidemiology Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections - microbiology Hospitals Humans Infections Medical sciences mef(E) molecular resistance mechanisms Molecular Sequence Data Pharmacology. Drug treatments Sequence Analysis, DNA Spain - epidemiology tet(M) vanB2 Virulence Factors - genetics
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